MeliBio, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based food-tech company focused on creating real honey without bees, raised $5.7M in seed funding.The round was led by Astanor Ventures, with participation from existing investors Big Idea Ventures and 18 Ventures, and new investors Skyview Capital, XRC Labs, Collaborative Fund, Midnight Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, Siddhi Capital, Climate Capital Collec...

Tesla has become one of the most valuable companies in the world, with car deliveries almost amounting to one million last year despite global supply chain issues and the dampening economic effects of the pandemic. Incredibly, all of this has been achieved with zero spending on traditional advertising.As this chart based on research by Visual Capitalist shows, the reliance on word of mouth mark...

NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) reported fiscal 2022 financial results for its third quarter ended February 28, 2022."NIKE’s strong results this quarter show that our Consumer Direct Acceleration strategy is working, as we invest to achieve our growth opportunities," said John Donahoe, President and CEO, NIKE, Inc. "Fueled by deep consumer connections, compelling product innovation and an expanding digi...

U.S. patent application, US20220007127, discusses a method to generate spatial audio based on computer vision. The method includes determining a position of an audio source based on an image generated via a camera and applying an audio spatialization filter to an audio signal generated by a microphone based on the position of the audio source. The figure below illustrates an input device with a...

What similarities do the world’s billionaires share? What are their differences?At the age of 12, Elon Musk built his first video game. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg shared an interest in computer programming, building a simple messaging platform at the same age. The co-founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, developed programming skills at college. All three span different generations and made their f...

A machine-learning model for image classification that’s trained using synthetic data can rival one trained on the real thing, a study shows.Huge amounts of data are needed to train machine-learning models to perform image classification tasks, such as identifying damage in satellite photos following a natural disaster. However, these data are not always easy to come by. Datasets may cost mill...

PAAVA Portable Speaker won’t easily fall or slide off a surface.How do you address the issue of a portable speaker rolling and falling? Some models don’t even have a proper grip, so they easily slide off a surface. An industrial designer came up with a new design that won’t easily fall off.Stalin Jr., an architect and industrial designer, designed the PAAVA Portable Speaker with the bowling...

In India, the number of crypto users more than doubled from 7 per cent to 18 per cent from 2019-21.Cryptocurrencies, even the jokey ones, are part of a robust, well-funded ideological movement that has serious implications for our political and economic future. Credit: Reuters File PhotoFor years, cryptocurrency seemed like the kind of fleeting tech trend most people could safely ignore but its...

A new generation of sodium-ion batteries is designed to bring clean, affordable, and sustainable power to some of the poorest and most remote regions.UK-based renewable energy and battery specialist AceOn has teamed up with battery pioneer AMTE Power to use next generation solar-powered energy storage units to bring electricity to remote sub-Saharan African communities. AceOn has developed the...